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Azerbaijani presidential candidate: "A bicycle producing plant should have been built in Lenkoran in place of an airport"

10 October 2008 [09:19] - TODAY.AZ
The airport, built in Lenkoran, will not be profitable for long years and will exist on subsidies from Baku, said presidential candidate and chairman of the United Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan Gudrat Hasanquliyev.
He noted that AZN 51 mln of budget funds was used for the airport construction.

"A bicycle producing plant should have been built there in place of an airport. We should calculate how many bicycles are imported to Azerbaijan from China each year. Most of them are of low quality and those, who purchase them for their children, are obliged to buy new ones in a couple of weeks, as the bicycles are worn out too quickly. We could produce bicycles and even export them to the neighbor states", said Hasanquliyev.

As for the economic component of his election platform, he noted that the document is based on the principle of strengthening production and reducing import of some products to Azerbaijan when possible.

/Day.Az/
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